Chess
Samarkand Round 7: One Match Point, Ten Paragraphs of Advertising, and the Boards That Stayed Nameless
Stop Calling the Scotch Harmless: The 2026 Tape, a Course, and the Ledger of a Wrong Name
A Phantom in the Ledger: The Anti-Scotch Course, Kasparov's 2026, and an Olympiad Debut No Gamelist Can Confirm
Chess Olympiad: Why India Named Nihal Sarin Player of the Day After the Uzbekistan Defeat — The Arithmetic of One Board
Samarkand Round 7: One Match Point, Ten Paragraphs of Advertising, and the Boards That Stayed NamelessHook: A Coffee Ring and a Headline I opened the link on my phone around eleve...
Samarkand Round Seven: A One-Match-Point Gap and the Missing Four-Board ScoresheetHook What reached the outside world after Samarkand's seventh round fits in o...
Bayonet in a Samarkand File: A DVD, the Shadow of the Sixth Grandmaster, and a Claim the NNUE Era Already RetiredThe file was labelled: Samarkand, Round Seven, Open. What I found inside was...
Samarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, a One-Match-Point Lead, and the Scoreboard Nobody Cross-CheckedI paused the stream in my bedroom in Mymensingh and the screen froze on a...
Samarkand Round Four: Eight-Way Tie at the Top and the Search for New RepertoireThe Samarkand scoreboard after Round Four flashed a strange picture: eight...
One Match Point and an Advertisement Underneath: Samarkand Round SevenIt was past eleven at night in Penang, the heat still holding outside the...
A New Turn in Chess Education on Blockchain: Technical Analysis of Lilov's Anti-System CourseCounting heartbeats in Paltan taught me that numbers confess more than tackle...
Thirty Minutes on the Clock, Two Points Up — Then Three MovesTwo in the morning in Saint Petersburg. Grey snow on the Neva outside, the lo...
Stop Calling the Scotch Harmless: The 2026 Tape, a Course, and the Ledger of a Wrong NameA ChessBase "60 Minutes" product page sat open in front of me on a Tuesday...
When White Avoids 2.c4 After 1.d4 d5: Auditing a Black Repertoire CourseHook: Thirty-Two Minutes, and a Clock That Does Not Lie Moscow, February 2026...
A Phantom in the Ledger: The Anti-Scotch Course, Kasparov's 2026, and an Olympiad Debut No Gamelist Can ConfirmIt was half past midnight in a Mymensingh bedroom, the fan turning, four tabs...
Chess Olympiad: Why India Named Nihal Sarin Player of the Day After the Uzbekistan Defeat — The Arithmetic of One BoardIt was a few minutes past two in the morning in Rangpur. The notebook lay ope...
Five Out of Five and the Steel Cupboard: India's Lower Boards, Our Empty ShelfIt was half past midnight in Khulna. The 2026 laptop had gone warm, the route...
No Board, No Proof: Auditing Poland vs India Women in Round 5 of the Chess OlympiadThree in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom. A stream paused on a secondhand...
Samarkand Round Seven: A One-Match-Point Gap and the Missing Four-Board ScoresheetHook What reached the outside world after Samarkand's seventh round fits in o...
Bayonet in a Samarkand File: A DVD, the Shadow of the Sixth Grandmaster, and a Claim the NNUE Era Already RetiredThe file was labelled: Samarkand, Round Seven, Open. What I found inside was...
Samarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, a One-Match-Point Lead, and the Scoreboard Nobody Cross-CheckedI paused the stream in my bedroom in Mymensingh and the screen froze on a...
Samarkand Round Four: Eight-Way Tie at the Top and the Search for New RepertoireThe Samarkand scoreboard after Round Four flashed a strange picture: eight...
One Match Point and an Advertisement Underneath: Samarkand Round SevenIt was past eleven at night in Penang, the heat still holding outside the...
A New Turn in Chess Education on Blockchain: Technical Analysis of Lilov's Anti-System CourseCounting heartbeats in Paltan taught me that numbers confess more than tackle...
Thirty Minutes on the Clock, Two Points Up — Then Three MovesTwo in the morning in Saint Petersburg. Grey snow on the Neva outside, the lo...
Stop Calling the Scotch Harmless: The 2026 Tape, a Course, and the Ledger of a Wrong NameA ChessBase "60 Minutes" product page sat open in front of me on a Tuesday...
When White Avoids 2.c4 After 1.d4 d5: Auditing a Black Repertoire CourseHook: Thirty-Two Minutes, and a Clock That Does Not Lie Moscow, February 2026...
A Phantom in the Ledger: The Anti-Scotch Course, Kasparov's 2026, and an Olympiad Debut No Gamelist Can ConfirmIt was half past midnight in a Mymensingh bedroom, the fan turning, four tabs...
Chess Olympiad: Why India Named Nihal Sarin Player of the Day After the Uzbekistan Defeat — The Arithmetic of One BoardIt was a few minutes past two in the morning in Rangpur. The notebook lay ope...
Five Out of Five and the Steel Cupboard: India's Lower Boards, Our Empty ShelfIt was half past midnight in Khulna. The 2026 laptop had gone warm, the route...
No Board, No Proof: Auditing Poland vs India Women in Round 5 of the Chess OlympiadThree in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom. A stream paused on a secondhand...